Word: soils
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Prophets of agricultural doom are fond of saying that U.S. farms are rapidly losing their fertility and will some day turn into sterile wastelands. This is not happening in one long-cultivated U.S. region. C.L.W. Swanson. chief soil scientist of the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station, says that the farmland of New England, which was not naturally fertile when the Pilgrims landed, has been made fertile by proper farming methods, and is growing more productive all the time...
...virgin soil under a long-established forest is not always good. Often it is "podzolic"; i.e., it has a top layer (called the "A-horizon") that is rich in humus. Below it is a "B-horizon" from which nearly all plant food has been leached by water percolating from the surface...
...welcome in him an enemy in the clothing of a friend," said a Cairo newspaper. Since Egyptian energies are currently devoted not to welcoming Britons but to booting them off Egyptian soil, the welcome visitor was an exception, but an understandable one. His name: Aneurin Bevan...
Last week, thanks to the enterprise of two bustling Ohio businessmen, the monastery was finally put together on U.S. soil. In North Miami Beach, Fla., workmen fitted the last of the 35,000 stones in place, and the two businessmen, E. Raymond Moss and William S. Edgemon of Cincinnati, got ready to open the monastery to sightseers. Moss and Edgemon had bought the stones at a bargain after Hearst's death in 1951, and packed them off to Florida. In the summer of 1952, a small army of architects, masons and other workmen started the laborious job of unpacking...
...problem of separate but equal education for races. Under the recently passed Bantu Education Act, natives will get education so unequal it is almost primitive. The Act will place natives in segregated schools run by the Native Affairs Ministry, whose avowed purpose is to teach only the "agrarian arts": soil care, cattle herding, and health. Somewhat more important is the implicit aim of teaching the native to accept his role as an inferior creature...